From: John Cuccia 

On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 19:42:54 -0500, "Geo."  wrote:

>This takes a tremoundous amount of time even though you only have to click
>to apply one because you have to hunt them all down and keep track of what
>is and isn't installed.

What's worse is keeping tens, or hundreds, of geographically dispersed
servers patched.  That pretty much precludes your "click to apply
one" method.

>I don't know firsthand what the patch situation is like on linux but I do
>know OS patches come from one place and web server patches from another and
>I would think that makes things even more difficult but someone who runs
>linux web servers would be able to answer how much pain there is better than
>I can.

I don't think MS is too different from Linux in this regard.  They're big
enough and there's enough intracompany competition  that OS and IIS patches
might as well be coming from different places. While you are downloading
patches for both products from the same place, there is no guarantee that
there was any real testing of the interactions done.

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